Who Wants To Be A Millionaire contestant loses £875k in devastating scenes – but do you know the right answer?

WHO Wants To Be A Millionaire viewers were near shocked aft a contestant missed retired connected the accidental to triumph £875,000 aft making a bid of silly mistakes. 

One question successful peculiar tripped her up - but did you cognize the close answer?

During Sunday’s occurrence (October 6), big Jeremy Clarkson welcomed a caller radical of contestants who hoped to container their changeable astatine becoming a millionaire. 

Jackie Lynch from Bayswater was archetypal to measurement up to situation - but ITV viewers were speedy to criticise her performance. 

She initially sailed done the competition, though she utilized up her lifelines successful the archetypal fewer rounds. 

But arsenic her assurance increased, it seemed similar Jackie would bash good arsenic she continued to ascent the wealth ladder.

By the clip she reached £125,000 unscathed, Jackie decided to usage her information net, meaning that prize wealth was successful the bag. 

But she was tripped up by the adjacent question, with nary lifelines left. 

Jeremy asked: “Dubbed the ‘Fight of the Century,’ Floyd Mayweather’s 2015 boxing lucifer against which hostile was the highest-grossing successful history?”

He past work retired the aggregate prime answers which were: “A: Oscar De La Hoya, B: Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, C: Manny Pacquiao oregon D: Conor McGregor.”

As Jackie realised this would person been a bully question for her person who she already phoned, she admitted she can’t spell immoderate further. 

Before revealing that she would person guessed De La Hoya, Jackie firmly said that she was not going to conjecture and volition instrumentality the wealth instead.

The close reply was Manny Pacquiao.

Jackie’s determination to instrumentality the wealth and discontinue the contention meant she missed retired connected her accidental to container a further £875,000. 

And viewers thought she could person done this if she hadn’t utilized up her lifelines connected the earlier questions. 

Taking to X, formerly Twitter, to dependable their fury implicit the episode, 1 instrumentality raged that Jackie “made an costly mistake” utilizing her lifelines excessively aboriginal successful the show. 

“She could person gone each the mode if she utilized the lifelines smarter,” said another.

While a 3rd fumed: “And this is wherefore you shouldn’t discarded your lifelines connected casual questions.”

“3 lifelines wasted,” agreed another, portion a 5th ITV spectator moaned: “Well, that was a precise costly lesson.”

Viewers were peculiarly annoyed that Jackie chose to inquire the assemblage for assistance connected a popular civilization question, which they felt she should person easily been capable to answer. 

“Which vocalist was played by Austin Butler successful a 2022 film?” Jeremy asked for £8,000. 

Jackie visibly groaned arsenic the TV big work the question and gave her the answers: “A: Elvis Presley, B: Bruce Springsteen, C: Kurt Cobain, D: Axl Rose.”

“I saw the film. I conscionable couldn’t beryllium definite who played him,” she admitted, earlier thanking the assemblage for their help. 

The audience’s information helped Jackie beforehand overmuch further into the contention earlier she stumbled connected the boxing question - but did you cognize the answer?